Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-02-12
STATE NEWS

Lawrence Tribune: A serious cutting
ARRAY occurred at Franklin school house,
about three miles east OF the city, last
night, in which John Skinner, a young
farmer, received a severe wound IN the
face from which he viii probably lose
one of his eyes. John Hazeltne, the
man who did the cutting, Is a coal miner
at Blue Mound, and he, with several
other rough characters, had been for
several weeks creating disturbances at
the lyceum which holds weekly meetings
in the Franklin school house. Last
night they went, as usual, to one OF
these meetings, and made themselves
obnoxious. Hazeltine was about to as
sault a boy named Erggert, when Mr..
Skinner interfered. Hazeltine then
drew a large knife and struck savagely
at the young man, inhicting an ugly
wound in his forehead and cheek, the
knife passing directly through one of
his eyes,. DR.. Mott am was called and
dressed the wound. He says it is not
likely that the injured eye can be saved.
HazeItine is a rough character, having
already served term at the penitentiarV
for rObbing a store IN Ottawa.
Columbus Star and Courier: One Of
our subscribers, commenting on our
articles about what causes the death of
cattle, published last week, says that the
same fatality existed among the cattle
here some years ago after a very dry
summer. Mad dogs were very common
at that time, caused by the dogs eating
the poisoned flesh of the dead cattle. He
predicts mad dogs will be prevalent this
spring and that people ought to be on
the lookout for them.
lola Register: On Wednesday the
26inst, the little five year old son of
James Perry living q miles south east
of lola, at the hour of noon set fire to
his fathers broom corn shed. It de-
stroyed a large quantity of shock corn
and several hundred bushels of cOrn,
some hay and buggy, a corn planter,
drill, two culhYatOrs and a lot Of
lumber and some minor articles, invelv-
ng a loss Of several hundred dollars.
A Collier, Trego county, paper says:
ga curiosity was secured by P. Richards
this week when he killed an object
he saw crawling along the ice on Coyote
sreek. It proved to be a weasel. Its
fur wac entirely white upon its body and
front legs; the hind legs and tail being
shaded from white to a pale lemon color
and the tail tipped with black. None
such have ever been seen here before
The Hutchison Nelvs says that a fen6
! by the name of Craddick living In that
/ city raped his daughter, aged 10, who il
now In a precaEiOus condition, and at
! tempted the same crime on his little IL
! year-old daughter. It was thought fol
a time that the brute would never have
a chance Tor trial by judge or jury. HI
was placed under So, 900 bonds and taker
to Newton to jail.
Emporia Republican: A small boy aP
peared In one Of the Sabbath schools 0
Emporia accompanied by an Empori
lad and was asked by the teacher Il b
knew the Lords prayer. He replies
that he had never heard Of It. Where
upon the Emporia lad, with a frisndl,
desire to excuse his ignorance said 3
the teacher, 'sPIease ma'an, he's a stran
ger from Wichita.
Garden City Sentinel: There Is no
a craze it seems to start a newspaper an
give it a queer name. In Kansas "
have the LgTe, the RWstEeT, the PrGfri
Dog, the Border Rlg6tG4l, the AstOnGsbe
: and P0raIgzer, the Blizzard, the CyeLoqs
the Thomas county Cat, the Ksame
KOyote, the Southern Kansas jack Raj
/ bit, and number of others with simill
3 names.
] Leutenant Peter Campbell, Of Il
? Eighteenth infantry, Fort LeayeDWortl
shot himself through the brain and die
He had suffered somewhat from menh
depression, and besides this was abo7